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Subject	Count
english language	48
science	6
latin language	3
architecture	2
building	2
commerce	2
commercial law	2
encyclopedias and dictionaries	2
walloon dialect	2
french language	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Richardson, Charles (1775-1865)	11
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)	8
Bailey, N (1742)	6
Coles, Elisha (1640?-1680)	4
Hutton, Charles (1737-1823)	4
Dyche, Thomas (1733)	3
Kersey, John	3
Pardon, William	3
Sheridan, Thomas (1719-1788)	3
Barlow, Frederic	2

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From 1600	8
From 1700	46
From 1800	21

Count of Latest date

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Up to 1699	8
Up to 1799	46
Up to 1899	21

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A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, explained in their different meanings, and authorized by the names of the writers in whose works they are found (v.1)

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

1756

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A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, explained in their different meanings, and authorized by the names of the writers in whose works they are found (v.2)

Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)

1756

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An universal etymological English dictionary : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue

Bailey, N (1742)

1733

First published in 1721.

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An universal etymological English dictionary

Bailey, N (1742)

1757

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An universal etymological English dictionary : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... Also a collection of our most common proverbs, with their explication

Bailey, N (1742)

1776

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An universal etymological English dictionary : containing an additional collection of words (not found in the first volume)

Bailey, N (1742)

1737

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Linguæ Britannicæ vera pronunciatio : or, A new English dictionary... In which every word has not only the common accent to denote the emphasis ... but ... every syllable is marked with a long or short accent ... A work entirely new and designed for the use of schools

Buchanan, James (1753-1773)

1757

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An English dictionary, explaining the difficult terms that are used in divinity, husbandry, physick, philosophy, law, navigation, mathematics, and other arts and sciences. Containing many thousand of hard words, and proper names of places, more than are in any other English dictionary or expositor. Together with the etymological derivation of them from their proper fountains, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, or any other language. In a method more comprehensive than any that is extant

Coles, Elisha (1640?-1680)

1732

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Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum: or, A general English dictionary

Kersey, John

1715

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De verborum significatione : the exposition of the termes and difficill wordes, conteined in the foure buiks of Regiam Maiestatem, and uthers, in the acts of Parliament, infestments, and used in practicque of this realme, and with divers rules, and common places, or principals of the lawes

Skene, Sir John (1543?-1617)

1641

Indexed in: BLC v. 304, p. 148.

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Glossographia : or, A dictionary, interpreting the hard words of whatsoever language, now used in our refined English tongue : with etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same. Also the terms of divinity, law, musick, physick, mathematicks, war, heraldry, and other arts and sciences explicated. Very useful for all such as desire to understand what they read

Blount, Thomas (1618-1679); Sergeant, John (1622-1707)

1674

Edition statement precedes statement of responsibility on title page. Final leaf is blank. Printed in double columns.

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Glossographia : or, A dictionary, interpreting and hard words of whatsoever language, now used in our refined English tongue; with etymologies, definitions, and historical observations on the same. Also the terms of divinity, law, physick, mathematicks, war, music, and other arts and sciences explicated... [etc.]

Blount, Thomas (1618-1679)

1670